Stereotyping in Gung Ho Movie: an appraisal analysis

Abstract

Many people do communication without comprehending the meaning contained in the sentences. The need to understand the meaning of the sentences of stereotyping threat by Appraisal analysis could make people become more aware with their sentences. Appraisal analysis, an approach by Thompson (2004) is a method to analyze stereotyping threat sentences. The sentences are divided into Appraisal sub-categories: Affect, Judgement and Appreciation. This study was conducted to find out the stereotyping in Gung Ho movie. This movie is considered as one that is rich with stereotyping according to the audience. With the help of functional grammar perspective, the analysis could be more reliable. Using Appraisal Analysis, there were 15 sentences found to have stereotyping. From those 15 sentences, there were 7 sentences of Affect and 8 sentences of Judgement. There was no sentence of Appreciation. The data indicated that the most of stereotyping threat sentences were Judgement.